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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sd@queasysnail.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, hannes@stressinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: don't set DST_NOCOUNT for remotely added routes
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:27:15 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140306.152715.1223513898002005603.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394124717-1957-1-git-send-email-sd@queasysnail.net>

From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2014 17:51:57 +0100

> DST_NOCOUNT should only be used if an authorized user adds routes
> locally. In case of routes which are added on behalf of router
> advertisments this flag must not get used as it allows an unlimited
> number of routes getting added remotely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
> ---
> 
> Hannes suggested this for stable

This seems to conflict with the intentions of:

commit a3300ef4bbb1f1e33ff0400e1e6cf7733d988f4f
Author: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Date:   Sat Dec 7 03:33:45 2013 +0100

    ipv6: don't count addrconf generated routes against gc limit

If not, why not?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-06 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-06 16:51 [PATCH net] ipv6: don't set DST_NOCOUNT for remotely added routes Sabrina Dubroca
2014-03-06 20:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-03-06 21:03   ` Sabrina Dubroca
2014-03-06 22:30     ` David Miller

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